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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 10, 2000Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2000, 3:19 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 2000, 3:19 PM MDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2000, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 36 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
36 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 102120
SVRPUB
COC061-102215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
319 PM MDT MON JUL 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 415 PM MDT

* AT 319 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTH OF CHIVINGTON...OR ABOUT 38
  MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  CHIVINGTON...NEE NOSHE RESERVOIR AROUND 410 PM MDT
  SHERIDAN LAKE...BRANDON AROUND 415 PM MDT

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL AROUND
ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH. GET INDOORS
AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE
BEST PROTECTION.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

LAT...LON 3863 10209 3864 10276 3829 10272 3829 10206

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.